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WAYFARINGS" 



BY 

JOHN HELSTON 



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By the MACMILLAN COMPANY 



THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 
1913 



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WAYFARINGS" 



BY 

JOHN HELSTON 



Copyright, igia 
By the MACMILLAN COMPANY 



THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 
1913 






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"WAYFARINGS" 

I love all roads that have green sides of grass, 
Where giant purple knapweeds, dark and wild, 
Still nod their shaggy welcome when I pass, 

Above pale clover flowers. 
I used to think they loved me as a child, 
And though they have forgotten now, alas, 
And now they only nod where once they smiled 

I wander there for hours. 

I love such roads as lead where no one knows, 
Nor cares, but I ; where once the Roman trod ; 
Where spreading hogweed stands in stately rows, 

Nor woodbine-breezes cloy. 
It may be Fancy, or it may be God — 



APR 24 1913 

4 "WAYFARINGS" 

A sense is ofttimes with me then that goes 
Past where the larks their utmost song unload 
Beyond the heights of joy. 

I love all goings westward when the way 
Is girt about with evening; when low gleams 
Are yet above dim woods, and yet the day 

Lingers though night appears. 
Among my soul a yearning sadness teems. 
From Twilight comes it, then? From God it 

may. 
But certain there is then with me that seems 
Beyond the depths of tears. 

— John Helston. 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 




